FW: [Publib] Topicality, the delete key, and the Hydrox Wars

[Lise Chlebanowski]

Yes, I agree, Joe, if you aren't going to post here please give us a shout when you put something new up!

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From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Hopkins County - Madisonville Public Library
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 2:17 PM
To: publib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Publib] Topicality, the delete key, and the Hydrox Wars

Agreed - keep 'em coming Joe! Or at least let us know when you put something
on your blog!

Terry Caudle
Hopkins County - Madisonville Public Library
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On Behalf Of Mary Soucie
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 3:57 PM
To: jschallan at yahoo.com; Publib
Subject: RE: [Publib] Topicality, the delete key, and the Hydrox Wars

Joe,
Consensus seems to be that you need to stay and continue to share your
witty and offbeat posts. Please bow to the peer pressure! Let's get the
list back to what it was before the "Hydroxy Wars of 2008"- a great
network of colleagues, sharing information, opinions and sometimes, a
little Joe/John nonsense!

Mary J. Soucie, MLIS
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From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Joe Schallan
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 1:46 PM
To: Publib
Subject: [Publib] Topicality, the delete key, and the Hydrox Wars

Friends,

At the end of June we had a bit of list unpleasantness which I will call
"The Hydrox Wars." (Makes a pretty good sounding SF novel title, eh?)

I've been thinking quite a bit about the issues raised at that time
pertaining to humor, staying on topic, and inviting those who don't care
for the humor to press their delete key. An assertion was made that a
list subscriber shouldn't be asked to deal with off-topic material at
all, since by Publib's own definition of itself, the material doesn't
belong there.

I have concluded that there is merit in that argument.

If Publib were baseball, I suppose I would be the Babe Ruth of
off-topicality, and the season leader in leaving good library topics on
base and in overall off-topic percentage, as well as in driving clean,
simple metaphors right into the ground.

Therefore I am moving my whimsical and curmudgeonical act over to my
blog, where the six or seven of you who have enjoyed it in the past may
now find it:

http://juralib.blogspot.com

In the meantime, I will continue seeing you all on Publib for strictly
on-topic concerns.

I will try to freshen up my blog from time to time, but when it is
gnawing at my ear, demanding the posting of new material when I'd rather
be in the living room watching the Diamondbacks beating the tar out of
the Dodgers, I may recycle some of my "classic" (an improbable label, I
know) material from Publib including, yes, the three methods for keeping
patrons from coming behind the reference desk to filch materials.

Cordially,

Joe Schallan
Phoenix




      


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